Now in 2013, as Pope Francis settles into his new role as leader of the Catholic Church, the Vatican's head of science is urging a re-think of the "mischaracterization" of the relationship between the church and science.

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Not being the stupid party also means supporting science and the separation of church and state, at least to the extent that creationism is not taught in public schools.

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The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.

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Focusing on early 20th-century Britain, he describes in scholarly detail different strategies for harmonising faith and knowledge: the sought-after alliance between liberal theologians in the Church of England and religious-minded scientists, and the rather different efforts of science-minded writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw to foster a modern, non-Christian religion.

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The Catholic church controlled France's schools in the 19th century and frowned on the teaching of science.

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For several years he traveled as a volunteer for the Mormon Church and for some time he taught Portuguese and studied computer science.

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"The experiments are very similar, " said George Church, a molecular geneticist at Harvard and senior researcher for the project reported in Science.

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